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My Own Lightning
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Closure is an ever-moving target in Lauren Wolk’s sequel to Wolf Hollow. After a tragic death, eleven-year-old Annabelle struggles to fit into ...Read Review
Hester
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In 1829, 19-year-old Isobel Gamble emigrates from Scotland to Salem, Massachusetts, with a tyrannical husband who’s ruined his apothecary practice through an opium ...Read Review
Life Dust
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This novel is a testament to the heroes of the Vietnam War and an eye-opening experience for readers. Our story opens in 1971 in ...Read Review
Come Down Somewhere
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The shadow of Trinity, the first nuclear bomb test in July 1945, hangs over the events in this novel. The story alternates between 1944-45 ...Read Review
Angels of the Resistance: A WWII Novel
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Dutch sisters, known as “the angels,” become the superheroes in Noelle Salazar’s Angels of the Resistance. Lien and Elif Vinke, teenagers responding ...Read Review
Torch
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1969, the year after the Prague Spring was crushed in August by Soviet tanks rolling over the “socialism with a human face” into Czechoslovakia, ...Read Review
Shrines of Gaiety
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London 1926. Kate Atkinson works her literary magic on another historical novel. Nellie Coker (based upon the Soho nightlife “godmother” Kate Meyrick), just released ...Read Review
The Painter’s Girl
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Paris, 1860s. A zebra bolts from the Cirque d’Hiver, terrifying people on the streets of Montmartre. Mimi, a poor 19-year-old laundress, manages ...Read Review
Gilded Mountain
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In Gilded Mountain, Manning tackles a variety of societal ills, including the plight of laborers in the Western mines, the racist aftermath of ...Read Review
The Lindbergh Nanny
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In 1932, the son of the world-famous aviator Charles Lindbergh was abducted from the family home in New Jersey. It was declared the crime ...Read Review
